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Morning Song

By Eugene Field

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The eastern sky is streaked with red,     The weary night is done,     And from his distant ocean bed     Rolls up the morning sun.     The dew, like tiny silver beads     Bespread o'er velvet green,     Is scattered on the wakeful meads     By angel hands unseen.     "Good-morrow, robin in the trees!"     The star-eyed daisy cries;     "Good-morrow," sings the morning breeze     Unto the ruddy skies;     "Good-morrow, every living thing!"     Kind Nature seems to say,     And all her works devoutly sing     A hymn to birth of day,     So, haste, without delay,     Haste, fairy friends, on silver wing,     And to your homes away!

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Eugene Field (1850–1895) was an American writer and poet known as the "children's poet." His poems "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" and "Little Boy Blue" are cherished classics of American children's literature.

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